The mobile banking platform developer's latest round, co-led by Tencent, is the latest in a busy 2021 for the French tech sector.

University research and spinouts could be caught in UK's push on national security.

Incode and Odyssey Therapeutics each secured over $200m while Alvotech Holdings, BenevolentAI and Tomorrow.io have agreed reverse mergers at unicorn valuations.

Salesforce Ventures led a round valuing the customer engagement software company at $21bn while Zoom continued to grow its corporate venturing bonafides.

Salesforce Ventures helped supply $62m for business intelligence software developer Klue while GS Retail invested $55m in mobility services provider Kakao Mobility.

The semiconductor tech company is considering going back on the stock market as its $40bn deal with Nvidia is facing a grim prognosis.

The new German Agency for Transfer and Innovation (DATI) will help the academic research base to create spinouts.

SoftBank’s Latin America Fund helped prayer app developer Glorify raise $40m at a $250m valuation while decentralised derivatives network Hxro Network secured $34m in a round featuring several corporates.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

AviadoBio is focusing on neurodegenerative diseases and has emerged from stealth with nearly $100m in total from investors including Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC.